Frank Angell

Frank Angell (July 8, 1857 – November 2, 1939) was an early American psychologist and the former athletic director at Stanford University.

Angell spent several years teaching high school physics in Washington, DC.

[2] He earned his PhD in the Leipzig laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt.

He remained at Stanford for the rest of his career, working primarily on psychophysics and as director of athletics.

[3] Angell in 1891 married Louise Lee Bayard (died 1944), daughter of Secretary of State Thomas F.

After the 1906 San Francisco earth­quake toppled Louis Agassiz 's statue from the façade of Stanford 's zoology building, Stanford President David Starr Jordan wrote that "Somebody‍—‌Dr. Angell, perhaps‍—‌remarked that 'Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete. ' " [ 1 ]